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We reported recently how he took to social media to criticise photographers outside his home.

That came after a series of reports in national newspapers about his private life.

Pardew says

PRESSURE ON YOU

It’s difficult. We’ve made it more difficult obviously because of what happened in Barcelona which put a spotlight on ourselves in terms of professionalism and everything else.

The stuff which came out of the dressing room on Saturday was disappointing because what goes on in the dressing room should stay in the dressing room in my opinion. But we did have drug testers in there so we had people in there not normally associated with the dressing room.

Having said that I’m not sure if our fans will be disappointed in that. What do they expect us to do? Not have words, let’s not have conflict in the dressing room after a performance like that?

So it came out about Brunty but it was not just Brunty, the captain and everybody else, myself and John Carver all had opinions on why that performance was such. I’d be foolish and not a good manager if I didn’t listen to those comments and look at them in reflection on Monday and Tuesday and come up, hopefully with some answers for Saturday.

I’ve always been questioned as a manager. Of course you get players coming into your office and saying why am I not playing? That’s questioning you.

BUT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, DOES THAT NOT DAMAGE YOUR AUTHORITY?

I don’t think so. Your tactical gameplan is your tactical gameplan and you can live or die by that.

There’s many times after a game I’ll hold my hands up and say I didn’t set ourselves up right. I didn’t actually see a lot wrong with our set up on Saturday if I’m honest.

Individual performances unfortunately weren’t good enough and that reflects on the manager at the end of the day.

So forget the tactical gameplan and everything else, if you don’t think Huddersfield are going to come and put you under pressure then you don’t know Huddersfield and our players knew very much what was coming.

It’s about dealing with it and frustration and anger in the dressing room is part of sport. I have no problem with it to be honest. The only disappointing thing was it came out of the dressing room.